Attorneys defending the state’s redistricting commission against allegations of open meeting law violations are touting an appellate court decision today as a victory. So is the county prosecutor who pursued the allegations.

Attorneys for the IRC and three commissioners who resisted an open meeting law investigation by Horne filed their responses Thursday in Montgomery’s appeal of the IRC’s sweeping victory in trial court.

At the Arizona Commerce Authority’s first four board meetings, more than two dozen business leaders and policymakers sat at a table that wrapped around half of the second-floor conference room in the Executive Tower, with so many others in attendance that chairs became scarce.